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...Black Panther Robert Webb, 22, moved from San Francisco to New York about a year ago. In the growing Panther schism between supporters of Huey Newton, the party's Oakland-based minister of defense, and Eldridge Cleaver, now exiled in Algiers, Webb sided with Cleaver. Last week Webb and two friends were walking along a Harlem street when they encountered several other blacks who were selling the party newspaper; since the publication is Newton-controlled, the Cleaver wing has proscribed it. Webb tried to stop the men from hawking it, but three of them drew guns and fired...
...Hilliard were behind the murder. "We have documented evidence," he said, "that these two madmen gave the orders to have Brother Robert Webb killed." Police have their doubts, but they suspect that the intraparty dispute is the key to the killing. They think the killers came from a dissident Panther group in Queens that remains loyal to Newton at a time when many of the New York Panthers are part of the Cleaver following. They also believe that Webb's death marks the start of a time of violence and terror within what remains of the Panther party. "Whether...
Epstein, a 35-year-old political-science instructor at Harvard, was assigned to track down the truth of the police-Panther issue by New Yorker Editor William Shawn. He not only deflated the Garry figure but also took the press as a whole to task for failing to carefully check claims that enthusiastic partisans such as Garry make for their cause...
Among Epstein's targets were both TIME and Newsweek. While neither accepted Garry's claim as fact, both used it as a reason for speculating on the possibility of a planned police campaign against the Panthers. TIME (Dec. 19, 1969) asked: "Are the raids against Panther offices part of a national design to destroy the Panther leadership?" In the same week, Newsweek posed a similar question: "Is there some sort of government conspiracy afoot to exterminate the Black Panthers?" LIFE gets some backhanded credit for saying in its Feb. 6, 1970, issue: "The Panthers claim 28 dead...
...frequently labeled "cops," "anti-communists," "enemies of the party," or, in the cases of a lucky few, "honest center forces who have been misled by enemies of the party." In a typical name-calling display, an editorial in the November 1969 issue of Progressive Labor magazine described the Black Panther-sponsored conference to form a "united front against fascism" as follows: "Except for a few pro-working class people and a scattering of rank-and-file Panthers, what an assortment the rest were: dope addicts, hippies, yippies, freaks, and pot heads...